Ethiopia Her Time to Grow News
Have you ever eaten kolo? It’s a popular snack in Ethiopia, made from roasted barley and peanuts. The group of 23 women received start-up funds from Her Time to Grow. They used the funds to set up their shop space and stock ingredients. Over the past four years, Her Time to Grow has supported over …
Meet Patricia. She’s an agriculture expert from Kenya — and a little bit like Goldilocks. In her community, she’s known for creating her own recipe for chicken feed, and making sure farmers can buy the amount they need — not too little, not too much. Juuust right. She also processes chickens to sell, so families …
Agriculture Cambodia Ethiopia Ghana Her Time to Grow Mozambique Paul Polak Innovation Fund Zambia
Back in 2024, iDE excitedly welcomed Support Her Enterprise — aka SHE — into the fold. SHE is a Cambodian organization that specializes in providing business training to female entrepreneurs. Women in Cambodia struggle to access and benefit from business training. There aren’t many networks to connect them, and business training isn’t tailored to their …
Bangladesh Paul Polak Innovation Fund WASH
Say you have a candy wrapper in your pocket. What do you do with it? Do you leave it in there, destined to tumble through the wash? Do you throw it in the trash? Or on the ground? What if you could recycle it? What could it turn into? Like most countries, Bangladesh is facing …
Ghana News Paul Polak Innovation Fund
Northern Ghana is a dry zone, with a rainy season from May to October, and a dry season from November to April. During the dry season, very few people can farm, which means families don’t get the nutrition they need. But, farming in the dry season is possible, with the right innovation! Thanks to generous …
She didn’t want to see the flowers. Not at first anyways. When a young mother finally received her first pair of prescription glasses — just moments after arriving at a pop-up eye clinic — there was only one thing she cared about: “I want to see my baby. And my husband.” Up until that moment, …
Ethiopia Ghana Her Time to Grow News Zambia
July 2025 We’re excited to share that the Her Time to Grow project was recently highlighted in the Government of Canada’s Report to Parliament on international assistance! 🌟 Your support makes achievements like this possible, thank you! You can read the full post — featuring entrepreneur Annie Muleba — at the link below. https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/stories-histoires/2025/iar-rai-her-time-grow-son-heure-gloire.aspx?lang=eng
Mozambique Paul Polak Innovation Fund
This is how iDE Mozambique staff describe their work in the past few months. They relied heavily on funding from the U.S. government for staffing and program costs, which was suddenly cut earlier this year. In the face of these challenges, the team has shown remarkable resilience and optimism — a positive attitude that is …
News Paul Polak Innovation Fund Vietnam
Vietnam’s lush coastline and winding rivers draw millions each year — but look closer, and you’ll see grocery bags tangled in mangroves, plastic bottles drifting along canals, and shorelines littered with debris. Every year, an estimated 300,000 metric tons of plastic end up in waterways and beaches — that’s the equivalent of 30,000 garbage trucks …
Your joyful support of Her Time to Grow is helping women in Ghana feel at ease trying a new, and slightly nerve-wracking way to earn income — beekeeping. Three white beehives sit in the shade beneath some trees in the rural village of Kalbeo. As you approach the hives, you can smell the sweetness of …
